Yorick (programming language)

Yorick

Usual file extensions	.i
Appeared in	1996
Designed by	David H. Munro
Stable release	2.1.05 (January 10, 2008)
OS	Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows
License	BSD
Website	Yorick Home Page

Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines. It was created in 1996 by David H. Munro of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Features

• Indexing

Yorick is good at manipulating elements in N-dimensional arrays conveniently with its powerful syntax.

Range of indices

Several elements can be accessed all at once:

<source lang="python"> > x=[1,2,3,4,5,6]; > x [1,2,3,4,5,6] > x(3:6) [3,4,5,6] > x(3:6:2) [3,5] > x(6:3:-2) [6,4] </source>

Arbitrary elements

<source lang="python"> > x=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x([2,1],[1,2]) [[2,1],[5,4]] > list=where(1<x) > list [2,3,4,5,6] > y=x(list) > y [2,3,4,5,6] </source>

Pseudo-index

Like "theading" in PDL(Perl Data Language) and "broadcasting" in Numpy ( Numeric extension for Python), Yorick has a mechanism to do this:

<source lang="python"> > x=[1,2,3] > x [1,2,3] > y=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > y [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > y(-,) [[[1],[2],[3]],[[4],[5],[6]]] > x(-,) [[1],[2],[3]] > x(,-) 1,2,3 > x(,-)/y [[1,1,1],[0,0,0]] > y=[[1.,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x(,-)/y [[1,1,1],[0.25,0.4,0.5]] </source>

Rubber index

".." is a rubber-index to represent zero or more dimensions of the array.

<source lang="python"> > x=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x(..,1) [1,2,3] > x(1,..) [1,4] > x(2,..,2) 5 </source>

"*" is a kind of rubber-index to reshape a slice(sub-array) of array to a vector.

<source lang="python"> > x(*) [1,2,3,4,5,6] </source>

Tensor multiplication

Tensor multiplication is done as follows in Yorick:

P(,+,,)*Q(,,+)

means <math>\sum_{j=1}^{j=N}{P_{ijkl}Q_{mnj}}</math>

<source lang="python"> > x=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > x [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] > y=[[7,8],[9,10],[11,12]] > x(,+)*y(+,) [[39,54,69],[49,68,87],[59,82,105]] > x(+,)*y(,+) [[58,139],[64,154]] </source>

External links

• Yorick Homepage